Lemon (poet)
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Lemon (Real name Andrew Anderson) (1975–) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. As a poet he has the most aired episodes on HBO'S Def Poetry seven times in five seasons as well as being an original cast member and Tony award winner for writing and starring in Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, in which he also has received a Drama Desk Award nomination. He has traveled the spoken word and theater scene for the last decade performing and selling out venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Apollo Theater, Chicago Theater, Hollywood’s KODAK, and, most recently, he brought the house down in front 500,00 people at Philadelphia’s LIVE 8. Nike chose him to write a piece to help them sign young basketball star Lebron James. He has recently shot three films with Spike Lee: Sucker Free City, She Hate Me and Spike's latest Inside Man, in which Lemon starred opposite Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. His theatre credits include Slanguage directed by Jo Bonney, The Ride at ps122, and U at the Mark Taper Forum as well as teaching performance art workshops at different colleges, universities and institutions: Harvard, Princeton, the University of Massachusetts, and Sing Sing prison for example. He is currently studying acting with Wynn Handman at Carnegie Hall.
[edit] External link
- Lemon at the Internet Movie Database
